Warzone/The Drive: The Little Model Shop That Played A Big Role In Killing Osama Bin Laden
Get a rare glimpse inside the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's 3-D Model Shop that makes big history with small models.
If you grew up having an interest in aviation, transportation as a whole, or defense technology, you probably at least tried your hand at model making. The vast majority of us were not successful in any way. What started as a dream to carefully assemble whatever the image looked like on the cardboard box, usually ended in a crudely painted thing with glue seeping through its seams. Nothing ventured nothing gained, but still, these endeavors left many of us in envy and in awe of those who actually wield the dark magic required to build models to their full potential. It turns out, that some of those folks grew up to make a career out of it—a very serious and highly impactful one—over at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) 3-D Model Shop.
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WNU Editor: The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is one of those US intelligence agencies that never get the recognition and attention that they deserve. And yes .... I know it is done on purpose.
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